Pulp Fiction, 1943 · page 44 of 100
12 Sports Aces, May 1943 — page 44: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This is a **story opening page** from a pulp fiction magazine, featuring Chapter I of "The Punch Professor" by C. Paul Jackson. The page includes a dramatic illustration showing a man in boxing stance wielding what appears to be a large mallet or club above three other figures, suggesting violent action. The visible text introduces the protagonist, Mathew Rourke Brian, a Ph.D. who appears unusually athletic and youthful for an academic—described as having an athletic build (192 pounds, six feet one inch) that contradicts his professorial role. The subtitle "Smashing Fight Novelette" indicates this is likely a hardboiled or action-adventure story blending academic and combat themes.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
“The Punch P rofessor By C. Paul Jackson away CHAPTER I ATHEW ROURKE BRIAN, Mw Ph.D., lifted his weight from the deep leather chair in Faculty Lounge of the Ruxford College Men’s Union. He did not look as though he had Smashing Fight Novedet ye 7 ae oe nL mr sam pet sat a - any right iz Faculty Lownge, He looked too young te hold a Doctor of Philosophy degree and the solid one-ninety-two pounds he packed on a wide-shouldered, lean-hipped, six-one frame did not loan him the appearance of a college profes- sor. He looked more like an athlete in the com (Q) IOOKS (EO)